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3 - Prison Metaphors

Conveying the Experience of Confinement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Monika Fludernik
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Fludernik asks what ‘confinement “means” experientially’ and sets out to investigate the ‘carceral imaginary’ in the use of conceptual metaphors when talking both about prisons (by inmates and outsiders) as well as about everyday experiences understood as confining.

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conceptual metaphorliteratureconfinementprison
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 39 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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